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This blog about Bangladesh is part of a series of country spotlights Climatelinks is publishing ahead of COP28.

• 11/07/2023
• Ariel Schindler

Social and behavior change communication campaigns are a tool that can help advance and sustain climate adaptation and mitigation efforts.

• 10/12/2023
• Krystle Corpuz

The USAID Reducing Pollution project works closely with local partners in Vietnam to address multiple sources of air pollution.

• 10/10/2023
• USAID Reducing Pollution project

By leveraging partnerships, programs are able to elevate their impact and longevity.

• 09/15/2022
• Sophie Schrader

USAID partners with island nation Kiribati to address the climate crisis

• 08/31/2022
• Christina Butler

The Fish Innovation Lab is working to address climate-related shocks to aquaculture and fisheries through current research to estimate aquaculture production and value chain performance in Bangladesh and promote sustainable fisheries management in East African biodiversity hotspots and climate refugia.

• 08/10/2022
• Alaina Dismukes, Agrilinks

Aware of artificial intelligence’s (AI) potential as an important tool in agricultural adaptation, USAID’s Feed the Future Bangladesh Digital Agriculture Activity (BDAA), as a part of DAI’s Digital Frontiers Project, recently supported the pilot of Plantix, a highly specialized and AI-driven smartphone application for farmers and extension workers in Bangladesh.

• 07/07/2022
• Agrilinks Team

FEWS NET is the global gold standard for food insecurity early warning.

• 03/31/2022
• Kiersten Johnson, James P. Verdin

As one of the world’s largest biodiversity conservation funders, USAID is working to advance win-win solutions for climate and biodiversity.

• 03/23/2022
• Kelvin Gorospe

Building on more than 120 years of combined experience of its two parent agencies – USAID and NASA – SERVIR joined the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow to highlight work that betters both scientific understanding and human well-being.

• 01/26/2022
• SERVIR Global

To address these challenges, USAID partnered with the Sustainable Ocean Fund (SOF), to make pioneering impact investments into marine and coastal projects and enterprises. The $132 million Fund invests in projects across Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia and the Pacific that aim to build resilience in coastal ecosystems and create sustainable economic growth and livelihoods in the blue economy.

• 11/23/2021
• Jennifer Kane, Sashi Jayatileke

USAID is supporting renewable energy in Vietnam — through strategic, discrete interventions to remove barriers for the private sector.

• 11/09/2021
• Kristin Kelly Jangraw

After more than three years supporting Southeast Asian agribusiness, forestry and other land use companies to lower their greenhouse gas emissions, USAID Green Invest Asia found this sector often lacks trust to jointly address climate risks – and opportunities – even when they share suppliers.

• 10/14/2021
• Angela Hogg

With support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Green Invest Asia program, the Hong-Kong based verifier, Carbon Care Asia, confirmed that Lionheart Farms has processes and controls in place to issue a green bond.

• 09/09/2021
• USAID

There is growing momentum in the international community to ramp up climate finance for mitigation and adaptation actions. Undoubtedly, a focus on climate change adaptation in the developing world must be a priority for the financing.

• 09/08/2021
• Mohamed Bakarr